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So I've been thinking about this for awhile now, and I'm wondering if I should make a water-mark for my drawings, or like a sigil, similar to the ones :iconunlimited-tea: does? Just a thought, but what do you guys think?

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Okay! So I've got one made, and while I do really like it, I'm still a bit on the fence about the colors... let me know what you guys think of it.
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Unlimited-Tea Featured By Owner Mar 10, 2017  Hobbyist General Artist
Hey If you want to, I think it's a great idea! (>w<)b

If you want to have it as a sigil then I can help you come up with a sigil if you like! 
If you have your own username or nickname that you have personally then that's cool also!
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6SeaCat9 Featured By Owner Mar 10, 2017  Hobbyist Writer
I was thinking something close to my username, yeah! Like, initially my intention for the 6 and the 9 at the beginning and end of my username would be a yin yang symbol... so like I was thinking a yin-yang sort of looking symbol with an S and a C in it.
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Unlimited-Tea Featured By Owner Mar 11, 2017  Hobbyist General Artist
OH! That sounds so cool omg. I like the idea!! :D !!!
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6SeaCat9 Featured By Owner Mar 11, 2017  Hobbyist Writer
I've got an example up in the journal now, check it out and let me know what you think!
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Unlimited-Tea Featured By Owner Mar 11, 2017  Hobbyist General Artist
YO

Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo-

I Love it. :la: 
It looks so cool! I had like 80 different variants of what your watermark/sigil could be in my head but none can compare to how cool your actual one looks!

Normally if you dont like the colors you can either:
a.) change the colors (my art program has a tool where I can change the 'hue' or colors of any specific thing)-
b.) change the opacity so even if you dislike the colors, no one can ever tell cause it's part 
of the picture, haha. 
or c.) Just draw out the watermark/sigil by hand. I rarely ever do this myself, I just do it when I feel lazy and
fed up lol. 

But I love it! It's really cool yo :dummy: 
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6SeaCat9 Featured By Owner Mar 11, 2017  Hobbyist Writer
Thanks for the advice! I'm glad you like it, and I really like it too!
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Unlimited-Tea Featured By Owner Mar 11, 2017  Hobbyist General Artist
You're welcome~!!!

It's very very wonderful!! >W<b ♥♥
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6SeaCat9 Featured By Owner Mar 11, 2017  Hobbyist Writer
^^

Your trade is up, btw. ^///^ Sorry its so late.
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NeonBlacklightTH Featured By Owner Mar 10, 2017  Hobbyist Digital Artist
It's a good idea but nothing that covers the entire picture. Essentially you could add a small watermark like your name or whatever on a piece of the picture and I mean ON the picture. For example, if it's a PNG file pic you put your watermark on the pic and not on the transparent space of the pic. If it's a full pic like say jpg or whatever then you can place the watermark anywhere you want. Just make sure that it cant be cut out through edit like putting the watermark on a character's clothes or arm, somewhere that would be noticed but not as much you know what I mean?
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6SeaCat9 Featured By Owner Mar 10, 2017  Hobbyist Writer
I do. My friend made a cool little logo that I think is her initials and she pits it in either blank space or where you'd not expect it at first.
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NeonBlacklightTH Featured By Owner Mar 10, 2017  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Putting the logo in blank space is a bit risky, enabling the potential thief to simply remove it entirely with ease.
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6SeaCat9 Featured By Owner Mar 10, 2017  Hobbyist Writer
True.
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NeonBlacklightTH Featured By Owner Mar 10, 2017  Hobbyist Digital Artist
It's best to just keep the watermark somewhere on the body image itself, just in case.
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6SeaCat9 Featured By Owner Mar 11, 2017  Hobbyist Writer
Right. Especially if its hard to see at first glance. Its like that episode of Miraculous, where Chloe tried to steal Marinette's design but failed because Marinette incorporated her name into the stitching on the brim upside down so you wouldn't see it at first.
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NeonBlacklightTH Featured By Owner Mar 11, 2017  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Yes, that's perfect!
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RL-182 Featured By Owner Mar 10, 2017
I would. I have one as well in the same image as my icon.
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6SeaCat9 Featured By Owner Mar 10, 2017  Hobbyist Writer
Right.
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RL-182 Featured By Owner Mar 10, 2017
Although I tend to hide my icon in places on an image where most wouldn't think to look like in then moon, or on the ground.
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6SeaCat9 Featured By Owner Mar 10, 2017  Hobbyist Writer
Yeah, I know the feeling.
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